Pebbles.....advancing

Some stitches on the oval of calico - and not the last ones.

I am adding all sorts of stitches with much gusto.
I like most the long buttonholed legs
But I am telling myself: Less is more!!!
Or at least should tell it......
The white bubble is the previously added wooden bead.
It makes the fabric wrinkle which I will hopefully eliminate
by seed stitches lateron and by damp stretching
 (the how-to I got through and thanks to
Karen Ruane's class)